Knowing that JBoss AS comes with Hibernate and knowing that Hibernate is the only JPA 2.0 provider not to support OSGi or even provide OSGi artifacts, I thought an OSGi JPA Service in JBoss OSGi would just be too good to be true.

Are there any plans to support a JPA service? Maybe with some other JPA provider? I've succesfully used OpenJPA with Aries on top of Equinox...

Hello we are currently evaluating application servers as possible replacements for IBM WebSphere. We are also interested in migrating to the Enterprise OSGi programming model. I have identified Glassfish, JBoss, and Virgo as possible candidates. However after reading through some of the JBoss documents it seems like JPA support is still missing. Not having JPA support would be a show stopper.

Is there a timeline when JPA support will be added for OSGi? Are there other work arounds?